Death could drop from the dark As easily as song— But song only dropped, Like a blind man's dreams on the sand By dangerous tides;Like a girl's dark hair, for she dreams no ruin lies there, Or her kisses where a serpent hides.

Theme

​The poem’s theme is about the sudden death in a war field, that brings silence. That silence is someway joyful for the soldiers, like the lurks that ends a war, or a sweetness like a cute girl.

Structure

The poem is constructed of four stanzas of 3-3-3-7. There are no significant rhyme scheme. In the first two stanzas, the writer exposes the situation of his life, then in the third stanza the joy of death, finally revealing the poisonous side and the sweetness of the end.​

Literary Devices

The poem makes use of imagery, irony and simile. The writer first emphasizes the darkness of his life by the imagery of “Sombre the night is”(line 1). In contrast, the writer describes death by a gas bomb ironically, “on a little safe sleep”(line 6). Then toward the end, the writer uses simile as “Like a blind man’s dream on the sand”(line 13) or “like a girl’s dark hair”(line 15) to impress a dark and sweet, empty image of death.

My Poem

Compared to the chosen poem, my theme were similar but from a different point of view. In a similar structure, the chosen poem conveyed the sweetness of death during wartime, but I chose a point of view of soldiers who remained alive after them. By using anaphora, simile and imagery, similarly to the chosen poem, I expressed two contrasting emotions of a battlefield.